Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Love and Information more than lives up to its title.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMSunday, February 16, 2014
The good news is that, even given that pedigree, the show is considerably better than you may expect. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:08PMFriday, February 14, 2014
Let's clear up one thing, straight off: The Chocolate Show!, the new musical at the 47th Street Theatre, is about chocolate. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMThursday, February 13, 2014
Don't expect that what looks like a healthy marriage from the outside, but isn't, is necessarily more identifiable as a union in peril when examined up close.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMSunday, February 9, 2014
“The majority of people in this room don’t know your references!”
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMThursday, February 6, 2014
If you love the New York Yankees — and yes, I mean love, not merely like — then nothing will extinguish at least a passing interest in Bronx Bombers, the play about the legendary basebal…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMHowever good they may be, actors can do everything right and still be wrong for their roles.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:12PMTuesday, February 4, 2014
How do they keep the snow on the stage?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMWednesday, January 29, 2014
Monday, January 27, 2014
Disney musicals have frequently been accused of being little more than cartoons dancing onstage, but compared to a real example of the genre they don't hold an LED-powered flashlight.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMEveryone's for sale, argues the new play Stop Hitting Yourself — life is merely a negotiation about the price.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMThursday, January 23, 2014
How lonely can you be when your lifelong best friend (and, depending on your definition, longest-lasting fling) lives right next door?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:03PMTuesday, January 21, 2014
Okay, so it quite doesn't leave you breathless
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMThursday, January 16, 2014
Ever since its 1968 Broadway bow, Joe Orton's play Loot has been tough to love in this country.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMCan the most musical show in town be an entirely spoken play?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMMonday, January 13, 2014
Neither the title of Chuck Blasius's new play at the Hudson Guild Theatre, I Could Say More, nor its contents infers the concept of any vital information being withheld.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:09PMSunday, January 12, 2014
Well before she moves to the suburbs in Act II, you’ll be calling the lead character of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, which just opened at the Stephen Sondheim, “Jersey Girl.”...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:24PMSunday, December 15, 2013
If the holidays for you mean endless communing with friends and family about either things you already know or that ultimately don’t matter beyond the boundary of your dinner table, Handle…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34PMThursday, December 12, 2013
You can take the playwright away from the spirits, but you can’t take the spirits away from the playwright.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMCole Porter has always been associated with the height of Broadway sophistication; in the 1920s and '30s, no one typified the martini-Manhattan aesthetic better than he did.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMMonday, December 9, 2013
Memo to Alex Trebek: Jeopardy! is not the beginning or the end of wisdom.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:05PMSunday, December 8, 2013
That love in all its forms is something worth dancing about is a fact that proves equally joyous and tragic in Chéri.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMThursday, December 5, 2013
Is it a triumph to transplant an artist from his natural milieu to one in which he sits uncomfortably, even if the results are good?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMTuesday, December 3, 2013
The roots of melodrama, which frequently run beneath William Shakespeare's canny comedy Much Ado About Nothing, are allowed to bloom rich and full in The Public Theater's Mobile Shakespeare …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMSunday, November 24, 2013
I’m not sure I ever actually bought in to the oft-cited cliché that age is a state of mind until this past week.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMSaturday, November 23, 2013
Regret, portentousness, and unease have all had their turn, so it only makes sense that with Regular Singing true melancholy comes to Rhinebeck.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:42AMThursday, November 21, 2013
Whenever a financier is caught committing some multi-billion-dollar crime, you hear plenty about the innocent strangers he dragged down into the mud of destitution, and certainly there's ple…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMWednesday, November 20, 2013
While watching Too Much, Too Much, Too Many, the new play by Meghan Kennedy for Roundabout Underground at the Black Box Theatre, all I could think was: "too little." . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:12PMEconomy, with respect to both money and morality, is the driving force behind John Pollono's play Small Engine Repair, which just opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in an MCC Theater produ…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PM 
